Sophie Pinkham

I am a writer specializing in Russian and Ukrainian culture and politics. My book BLACK SQUARE: ADVENTURES IN POST-SOVIET UKRAINE is out with Norton (US) and Heinemann (UK). Hear me discuss it with WNYC's John Hockenberry here. You can read excerpts about Crimean Crusoes in n+1, the early days of Ukraine's Maidan revolution on Lithub, and post-revolutionary Maidan in Dissent. And here I am on C-SPAN talking about BLACK SQUARE, fake news, and the post-Trump world order.

My articles, essays, and book reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, The Nation,n+1, and The Paris Review, among other places. Topics include revolutionaries, oligarchs, and graphomaniacs; Tolstoy's wife's revenge; an afternoon with a Cossack bear trainer; and the history of the show trial.

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